The Great Exhibition.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 669, 31 December 1851, Page 4

The Great Exhibition.

The numbgr of visitors on Tuesday n 68,496 making the total since the opening 2,756,990. The amount received was-t | the doors £2,281 10s. ; for season ticket!, £6 6s. ; making the total receipts, sioa the commencement, from the former soutijU £187,403 155., and from . the latisl £66,644 Ils. The number of visitors on Wednesday wul 58,382, and the amount received wji r £2,b35 6s. The resort of visitors to the Crystal Pa!-| ace was about the same on Thursday as ot' the preceding day. During the first t«t| hours the number was nbout 34,000; aolf up to four o’clock, 56,000. The total num-; her during the day was 56,849 ; tbe total?: receipts at the doors, £2,800 16s. On Friday the number of persons who® visited the interior of the Crystal Palace, sop cording tp the police return, amounted log 26,896. The amount received for seasons tickets disposed of at the reduced price was fi £53. The amount of money taken at tbe. doors was £2,853 2s. 6d., making the total | sum £2,905 2s. 6d. J In the course of Saturday afternoon, 9,725, persons visited the Crystal Palace, a number, i with one exception, smaller than that record- g ed on any previous ss. day. At two o clocK, | 4,3/1 persona entered the building, and j at five the arrivals amounted to 9,113. AsJ much as £5l 10s, was taken in ine»° ,c v *i the new tickets issued at tbe reduced price | for the remaining months of the season. e : receipts are as follows Season nckets '| £5l 10s.; at lhe doors, £1,324 10s.;W*al.| £1,379. On Monday the number present j;“*| 62,631, and the amount received ( iOC, o G “*" 6 ’?, £22 for the sale of season tickets) £3,020 s <| —Exeter Flying Post, August 7- j Closing of Exhibition,— On Mon »y| a Parliamentary paper was printed, contain'! ing a copy of the Royal warrant to . eot ”° I the ground in the Hyde Park for W® ,e ! Exhibition, and a copy of tbe deed ! ant from tbe Commissioners to Her W n n by which they undertake that the «aid | bition, “ shall be closed and concM e “ °® ; before the Ist November, 1851.” ccor jj to this agreement, all things are to bo catr . ? | away at the expense of the Commission^ 8 J| the Ist June. 1852. J